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Concerns and Preoccupations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 173

Concerns and Preoccupations

  • Categories: Art

This series [pushes] the boundaries of knowledge and [develops] new trends in approach and understanding. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW

Monarchy, State and Political Culture in Late Medieval England
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 249

Monarchy, State and Political Culture in Late Medieval England

New approaches to the political culture of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, considering its complex relation to monarchy and state.

Foundations of Medieval Scholarship
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

Foundations of Medieval Scholarship

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Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 337

Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London

The Black Death that arrived in the spring of 1348 eventually killed nearly half of England's population. In its long aftermath, wages in London rose in response to labor shortages, many survivors moved into larger quarters in the depopulated city, and people in general spent more money on food, clothing, and household furnishings than they had before. Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London looks at how this increased consumption reconfigured long-held gender roles and changed the domestic lives of London's merchants and artisans for years to come. Grounding her analysis in both the study of surviving household artifacts and extensive archival research, Katherine L. Fren...

Women in Thirteenth-century Lincolnshire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 263

Women in Thirteenth-century Lincolnshire

Written by Louise J. Wilkinson, this book offers a regional study of women in 13th-century England, making pioneering use of charters, chronicles, government records & some of the earliest manorial court rolls to examine the interaction of gender, status & life-cycle in shaping women's experiences in Lincolnshire.

Reading Practice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 319

Reading Practice

Through portraits of readers and their responses to texts, Reading Practice reconstructs the contours of the knowledge economy that shaped medicine and science in early modern England. Reading Practice tells the story of how ordinary people grew comfortable learning from commonplace manuscripts and printed books, such as almanacs, medical recipe collections, and herbals. From the turn of the fifteenth century to the close of the sixteenth century, these were the books English people read when they wanted to attend to their health or understand their place in the universe. Before then, these works had largely been the purview of those who could read Latin. Around 1400, however, medical and sc...

Scotland and the Wider World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 236

Scotland and the Wider World

Provides for a historical perspective of Scotland's interaction with the world beyond its borders. As one of the most prolific historians of his generation, Allan I. Macinnes, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Strathclyde, has been foremost in promoting an international rather than insular approach to the study of Scotland. In a distinguished career he has written extensively on the Scottish Highlands, the British revolutions, the formation of the United Kingdom, the Jacobite movement, and Scottish involvement in the British Empire. The chapters collected here reflect the extent of these interests and a commitment to understanding Scotland - or indeed, other territorial unit...

Fourteenth Century England XII
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 222

Fourteenth Century England XII

Essays offer a lively snapshot of important topics.

Medieval Petitions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 267

Medieval Petitions

New research into petitions and petitioning in the middle ages, illuminating aspects of contemporary law and justice. The mechanics, politics and culture of petitioning in the middle ages are examined in this innovative collection. In addition to important and wide-ranging examinations of the ancient world and the medieval papacy, it focuses particularly on petitions to the English crown in the later middle ages, drawing on a major collection of documents made newly accessible to research in the National Archives. A series of studies explores the political contexts of petitioning, the broad geographical and social range of petitioners, and the fascinating worm's-eye view of medieval life tha...

Painting for a Living in Tudor and Early Stuart England
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 303

Painting for a Living in Tudor and Early Stuart England

  • Categories: Art

A rare examination of the political, social, and economic contexts in which painters in Tudor and Early Stuart England lived and workedWhile famous artists such as Holbein, Rubens, or Van Dyck are all known for their creative periods in England or their employment at the English court, they still had to make ends meet, as did the less well-known practitioners of their craft. This book, by one of the leading historians of Tudor and Stuart England, sheds light on the daily concerns, practices, and activities of many of these painters. Drawing on a biographical database comprising nearly 3000 painters and craftsmen - strangers and native English, Londoners and provincial townsmen, men and somet...